Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket,150 pages. Black & white illustrations by Marvin Friedman. What happens when Pinch and Sorrow Nix tend to an injured crane and try to protect it from The Zoo Man and others who want the bird for their own profit.
Hardcover. NY, MacMillan, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Red boards, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. Spine very faded, edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, price-clipped, slight foxing to inside of dust jacket and endpapers, pages clean, crisp and marked; overall a neat, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages. Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate. When Carol, a knockout beauty, shows up looking to follow the caravan of workers, Tommy falls for her almost immediately. There aren't any jobs for women on the pipeline, but Carol knows a few things she could do for the workers to keep afloat -- an arrangement that Tommy can't bear for long. As Tommy's about to find out, when you're South of Heaven, you're far from grace - -and sometimes the only way out is down. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on dedication page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 2nd pr., 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with blue stamping. B&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Light shelf wear, mild soil to covers. A tale of the Spanish coast, of Basque fishermen, and a mystery of the sea about a 12-year old boy who comes to live with his. brother.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 181 pages. Dust jacket slightly edgeworn, otherwise very good. The year she turns twelve on Spanish Hoof, her family's ranch in Florida, Harry gets a pony & learns some life lessons. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, HarperTempest, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 280 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 406 pages. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Decorative stain to top edge. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st thus, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 350 numbered hardcover copies, signed by Paul Bowles [# 78]. . A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES (on limitation page). Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 406 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Twenty tales recounting the antics of the West Indian trickster ANANCY and his companions- Bro Monkey, Bro Dog and bro Tiger. Bold b/w illus. by Nigerian artist Joseph Olubo. Clean.
hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FRAYN on title-page.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth stamped in purple, 288 pages. Stated first edition on copyright page. When Bart Paget is found clawed to death in his library and Susan Remington has disappeared and her wild cats let loose, Asey Mayo must act quickly to avert the panic sweeping over Quanomet. Very minor fade to spine, otherwise a tight clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 406 pages, illustrated by Henry C. Pitz, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR in rear, number 794 of a limited 1500 copies, introduction by John T. Winterich. Decorated cloth board with gilt title and slipcase, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co., reprint, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 179 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Green cloth covers with embossed design and bright gilt decoration of rifle, drum and flag. Seven b&w plates and title page drawing by F.O.C. Darley. Previous owner's signature otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Avon Books Comapany, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #112. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Rubbing to spine.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green tweed cloth with black lettering on spine, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 321 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Clean copy.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush. 188 pages in a nice dust jacket. An historical novel for young adults about the Suffragette movement.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED. Doyles's hastily scrawled signature on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 416 pages. The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdie's intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writer's psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous "Step Across This Line," a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, original gold Holt Library Edition sticker to spine, 290 pages. After being jilted by her fiance, a young girl persuades her father to let her enter the business world rather than a convent. A young Renaissance woman defies tradition and wins independence in the world of commerce. Edith Martha Almedingen (1898-1971), was an Anglo Russian novelist, biographer, children's author and member of the Royal Society of Literature. Published originally in England in 1956. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Oakland CA, PM Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. Sticking It to the Man tracks the ways in which the changing politics and culture of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s were reflected in pulp and popular fiction in the United States, the UK, and Australia. Featuring more than three hundred full-color covers, the book includes in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, articles, and reviews from more than two dozen popular culture critics and scholars. Among the works explored, celebrated, and analyzed are books by street-level hustlers turned best-selling black writers Iceberg Slim, Nathan Heard, and Donald Goines; crime heavyweights Chester Himes, Ernest Tidyman, and Brian Garfield; Yippies Anita Hoffman and Ed Sanders; best-selling authors such as Alice Walker, Patricia Nell Warren, and Rita Mae Brown; and a myriad of lesser-known novelists ripe for rediscovery.
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third novel in Israel's mystery series featuring private detective B.F. Cage, this time investigating French professional basketball, drugs and the Paris underworld.
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third novel in Israel's mystery series featuring private detective B.F. Cage, this time investigating French professional basketball, drugs and the Paris underworld.
Hardcover. London, UK, Secker & Warbug, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, uncipped dust jacket, 584 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR in front endpapers. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's/Minotaur Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY TAYLOR on title page. Art history professor Sweeney St. George is in the middle of putting together an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that should be in the museum's collection seems to be missing. Searching for answers, Sweeney learns that a student intern at the museum was the last person to check out the piece, a young woman who died of an apparent suicide soon after she handled the piece, more than twenty-five years ago. Going on with the exhibition without the intricately beaded Egyptian collar, Sweeney can't let it drop altogether. Nor can she forget the student, Karen Philips, who died just a few months after working with the piece. A little digging shows that Karen was working at the museum the night it was robbed, that same year, and Sweeney becomes even more curious. But her interest in mysteries past pales when a present-day murder brings Sweeney and her colleagues at the museum under the Cambridge Police Department spotlight in the person of Detective Tim Quinn, whom Sweeney has worked with before. In the fourth installment in this rich and fascinating series, Sweeney and Tim go after a killer, trying to resolve questions both immediate and decades-old before it's too late.
Hardcover. London, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1st UK, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Scarce in hardcover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 225 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bronson. Color illustrated endpapers. Review copy stamp on half-title page. Corners bumped, rubbed. Soiling to covers. A tale of two adolescent Native American boys on islands off the coast of Spanish-conquered Mexico. 47 illustrations by the author.
Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 120 pages. Illustrated by Jean Harper;
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 651 pages. Clean, tight copy. Few writers of the past quarter-century have so consistently surprised, startled, and delighted their readers as has the masterful Richard Bausch, whom the Washington Post Book World calls "a virtuoso of language and literary grace." His nine critically acclaimed novels have established him as one of the most important fiction writers of his generation, a visionary stylist with an acute eye for the minute detail that illuminates the deepest wells of human experience. Yet it is for his award-winning short fiction that Bausch is perhaps most admired. The Stories of Richard Bausch celebrates the work of a great American artist, a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with a blue title block on the spine strip. Illustrations: Blue and white seascape scene on each endpaper; b/w frontispiece; a b/w illustration at the head of each of the 17 chapters. Dust jacket is edgeworn. chipped. Adventure novel for young people and adults of Labrador life, an intelligent Indian dog, and the great outdoors.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint , 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Top edge gilt. Embossed cover with gilt decorations. Light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to spine and front panel. Decorated front panel. Gilted top text block. Black-and-white illustrations throughout by noted illustrator A.B. Frost. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Heavy bumping to all board corners, all edges slightly frayed. Mild fading and age toning to prelim pages. Age toning to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 333 pages, with eight illustrations and a pictorial spine and front cover. Minor edge wear and rub, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original beige color binding with the front board that features a large illustration by Oliver Herford of two young people upon a large black horse with the title above in bright gilt. 198 pages. Edges stained green. 25 black & white illustrations by Herford. Slavery, pre and Civil War saga of Georgia plantation life and loyalty of one Aaron. a foreman of slaves, himself a Black man. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint , 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Oliver Herford. First published a year earlier. Beautiful, clean copy. all edges green, decorated cover with gilt lettering.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st US, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 228 pages, blue paper-covered boards. Light wear to book and dust jacket. SIGNED BY TREVOR on blank page proceeding the half-title page.
Softcover. London, FABER AND FABER, uncorrected proof, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 188 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, rep, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Pictorial cover. Light wear to covers. Previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Illustrated with 10 color plates by Peter Hurd (1st edition by this illustrator) Tight copy. Light rubbing to lettering on spine.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover with gilt/Black decoration on front cover. Heavy rubbing to cover boards and corners bumped. Previous owner's name and markings on first few pages before title page. Illustrated in b/w by Howard Pyle.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Small remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise clean. It's the last swimming season for Walker, Nortie, Lion, and Jeff, and their coach is building their self-discipline in a grueling four-hour-a-day test of stamina designed to bring them to the outer edge of their capabilities. As it turns out, Stotan Week is also the week in which secrets are revealed, and the four friends must draw upon their new strengths for an endurance they never knew they'd need.
Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. Attractive copy of the fourth novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park. Such is the canvas of Richard Russo's Straight Man, a novel of surpassing wit, poignancy, and insight. As he established in his previous books Russo is unique among contemporary authors for his ability to flawlessly capture the soul of the wise guy and the heart of a difficult parent. In Hank Devereaux, Russo has created a hero whose humor and identification with the absurd are mitigated only by his love for his family, friends, and, ultimately, knowledge itself. Clean copy.
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